Shimun XVII Abraham

Mar Shimun XVII Abraham (also Simon XVII Abraham or Auraham) was Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from c. 1820 to 1861.[2]

Mar Shimun XVII Abraham
His Holiness
Church	Assyrian Church of the East
Diocese	Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
See	Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	1820
Term ended	1861
Predecessor	Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan
Successor	Shimun XVIII Rubil
Orders
Rank	Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born	1800–1[1] Qodshanis, Hakkari
Died	1861 Qodshanis, Hakkari
Nationality	Assyrian
Denomination	Christian, Assyrian Church of the East
Residence	Qodshanis, Hakkari

He led the church from Qodshanis, (modern Konak, Hakkari) in southeastern Turkey, and tried to maintain good relations with local Ottoman authorities. In 1843, he was faced with renewed hostilities from Kurdish warlords, who attacked many Christian villages and killed 10,000 men, taking away women and children as captives, and forcing Patriarch to take refuge in Mosul.[3] He is buried in the Church of Mar Shalita in Turkey.

See also

• List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East

References

1. Badger, George Percy. The Nestorians and their Rituals. 1. London: Joseph Masters. p. 242. [1843] I cannot better describe the person of Mar Shimoon than by quoting the language of Dr. Grant: "The patriarch is thirty-eighty ears [sic] of age, [he was four years older when I first saw him,] ...
2. Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 127, 175.
3. Wilmshurst 2000, p. 33, 212.

Sources

• Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Coakley, James F. (1992). The Church of the East and the Church of England: A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198267447.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Grant, Asahel (2004). Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L. (ed.). The Nestorians, or, The Lost Tribe. Gorgias Press. p. i. ISBN 1-59333-154-1.
• Guest, John S. (1987). The Yezidis: a study in survival. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 0-7103-0115-4.
• Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L. (1997). "Geldelijk of Geestelijk Gewin? Assyrische Bisschoppen Op De Loonlijst Van Een Amerikaanse Zendingspost". Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis. 77 (2): 241–257. doi:10.1163/002820397X00270.
• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Official site of the Assyrian Church of the East